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FOLIO Fouo DUE our srns ma ARTICLE 512W? PRICE Amum' M 1 PAIR moves 1PAIR swvzs 3 SUITS 0F CLOTHES s HATS -/7 2 PAIR SHOES L 4 aaunsrs Y 10oz. COLLARS I SDI 5 PAIR SLIPPERS .5 sum OFCLOTHES 5 HATS 513T m 2 PAlRSHOES 1 4 sounsvs i 501 l DOZ. COLLRRS JJZ 5 PRR SUPPER!) OM/MZ iPatented May 6, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JESSE A. B. SMITH, OFSTAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 UNDERW'OOD ELLIOTT -IISHER"COMPANY,OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATIOH OF MANIFOLDING SHEET Originalapplication filed September 5, 1922, Serial No. 586,064,- now Patent No.1,562,524, dated November 24,1925. Divided and this application filedJuly 14, 1925. Serial No. 43,498.

This invention relates generally to printed forms and more particularlyto a combined 5 separate but more generally have their side ed esconnected in the form of a fan-fold W6%; a suitable variety of formsbeing printed upon the plies, and each form being torn off after typing,as set forth in the Wernery and Smith Patent No. 1,132,055, dated March16, 1915.

In some cases one of the duplicate forms is in the nature of anorderblank, which, when typed, is placed in the hands of the person whocollects the goods and delivers them to the shipping room. A singleorder sometimes covers a great variety of goods, and it is necessarythat the order be split up and the difierent items thereof sent todifferent departments for execution. Each item occupies only a singleline of typing, and it has been found impracticable to type these splitorders atthe same time that the original is typed upon the fan-foldform. This is because there must be typed upon a single fan-fold form acom plete schedule of the items, whdreas usually there must be typedupon each of the split-up orders only a single item. One of the objectsof this invention is to overcome this diificulty and enable theindividual orders to ,be typed upon appropriate forms simultaneouslywith typing of the composite order upon the manifold forms.

For the orders, a sheet is provided having a,

series of transverse perforated lines dividing the sheet or slip intosections 'or coupons adapted to be torn apart. A single item, composinga part of the order, is ordinarily-written on each of these sections, sothat the successive' items on the sectional order-sheet or:

, slip appear with considerable space intervening between them. The sameitems appear on great difference in the line-spacingof the same items onthe bill and order-sheet or slip.

In using a machine of this type, the leading edgesof the main work-websare withdrawn from between the platen and the feed-rollers afterthe'completion of each bill, and lifted up to permit the insertionbeneath the main Webs of a set of sectional order-sheets andcarbon-sheets, so that these sectional ordersheets or slips will bepresented to the types outside of the main webs on the platen, that is,in a position where the slips may be grasped and adjusted upwardly bythe operator, and where the outer slip will be visible 1 to theoperator.

As above pointed out, the items are differently spaced on the bills andon the sectional order-sheets. In order that they may be writtensimultaneously, therefore, it is necessary that the bill Webs and thesectional ordersheets be advanced different distances between the typingof successive-items. The bill is advanced by the usual line-spacingmechanism of the tvpewriter.

Another difficulty has arisen because, in splitting up the order, it hasbeen the practice to typewrite the customers address upon eachsection ofthe split-up order, although it is not desirable that such addressshould be repeated for each item upon the fan-fold form, which shouldcontain all of the items and only one address. This 'difiicultyis alsosought to be overcome by the present invention; To. this end the addressof the customer is printed upon the first of the sectional forms orcoupons, which may have .a blank heading space for the purpose, and thesame address, of course, will appear upon all'of the fan-fold plies. Theaddress is not repeated,

and does not appear upon any of the remaining item forms or coupons. Toserve the same purpose as the address, however, a certain ofiice numberis printed or stamped upon --the separate itemforms or coupons, usingthe same number for each set of forms, The itein forms are thendistributed .to various departments, and as the orders are filled theyare forwarded to the shipping department,

-whichcmakes up the package-to contain all m [ion 11 thereon into typ ofthe goods gathered under a given oflicenumber for sh pping to thatcustomer.

This is a division of my application, Serial No. 586,064, filedSeptember 5, 1922 (nowadapted to be used in a fan-fold machine.

Figure 2 is a sectional order-sheet to' be typed slmultaneously with thebill web of Figure 1.

ontinuous forms or webs 10 are used in a' typewriting machine, such asshown in said patent to Wernery and Smith, No. 1,132,055. In some cases,one of the duplicate forms is in the nature of an order blank, which,when typed, is placed in the hands of the person who collects, the goodsand delivers them to the shipping room A single order some: times coversa great variety of goods, and it is necessary that the order. be splitup into individual items and the difi'erent items sent to their resective departments for execution. For t is purpose there are providedsectional order forms or coupons 11 preferably printed upon webs orslips12 and separated by perforated lines 13 for convenience in tearingthem off. These sectional order slip? 12 ma be narrower than thefan-fold we s 10 an may be collated properly relatively to the fan-foldwebs by providing upon the typewritin machine a pocket in rear of theplaten. e order slip 12 may be ad-' vanced independently of the mainwork-web 10 to bring the leading section or coupon on the slip intoregister with the corresponding form of the main web, and then all thesheets may be typed. Then the line-spacing mechanism is operated, andsubsequently the sec tional order slip 12 is independently advanced tobring the next order formor coupon 11 thereon into position in order torecelve the succeeding item, that is, the item which is to fall on thenext line of typing on thefanfold web. The t ewriting machine is againline-spaced, and e sectional order web 12 is also advanced to bring thethirdiform or couing position, and soon, so that the entireQsectmnalorder .web may be t during the typing of a single form on t e fan-foldweb. he sectional order forms or coupons may then be torn apart and dis-:53 tributed for execution, while the typed forms may be torn ofi fromthe fan-fold web and the various lies thereof separated and distributedto t e various billing, bookkeeping, shipping and'other departments forthe usual (.3 purposes.

. The bill-webs 10 and the sectional order slip 12 are typedsimultaneously in the typewri machine in the following manner: Thecarbon-sheets upon the carbon-holder are C3 interleaved with the severalbill webs 10; sectional order-sheets 12 are then selected, having asmany sections or coupons 11 as there are items in the order, orpreferably a complete set of coupons forming a sheet as prepared by theprinter is used, and, if more than one sectional order-sheet of,couponsis to be used, carbon-sheets are interleaved with them before they arepresented to the machine. The platen bein in its swung-up position, theends of the ill webs 10 are then raised, and the sectional order-sheets12, with their carbon-sheets, are thrust backwardly into the mouth ofthe pocket between the walls and gages. The leading edges of the main orbill webs 10 and the sectional ordersheets 12 are then aligned andinserted around the raised platen, which is then lowered to. Theoperator then types normal position. the index number 14 of the order(which is obtained from the split-order slip and is there printed on theheading and each section 11 or coupon of the sectional order-sheet 12),so that the bill 10 may be identified with the sectional order-sheet 12.The index number grip and hold stationary the bill webs, which areordinarily widerthan the sectional ordersheets. The platen is thenunlatched and raised slightly to. a position, wherein the paper will bereleased from the influence ofthe' feed-rollers. The sectionalorder-sheet or slip- 12 is then drawn forward independently of the mainwork-web 10 until the second section or coupon of the slip is inposition to reciiive the second item 17. The platen is then restored toits normallowered or printing position, and the clamps are moved torelease the bill webs 10 for line-feeding. A paper-knife mayconveniently be used as a gage in conjunction with the perforated lines13 for determining the position of the sec- .tional order-sheet 12 ateach 'adjustmentthereof. This adjusting of the order-sheet or slip isrepeated after each item until all of V theitems have been typed. Theplaten is then raised, the sectional order-sheet is re moved, and the.coupons are detached from each other to be distributed among the severaldepartments, or, in case an entire sheet of forms is used and theindividual items do not cover all the sections thereof, the coupons maybe detached, beginning with the top one,

and each down to the last section upon which an item of the order istyped. On this last t ped section, the remalning untyped SOC- tlons Wlllbe-left attached, and the group of;

sections .used as a single order-couporn. In

this way, a check may be made upon the numparcels of the order arecollected for shipment, since, in case, as shown, the sheet containsseven sectional parts when all seven of the parts are received w th thearcels at the shipping department, it will e known that the completeorder has been received for shipment. In this way, an order, of say fouritems, is typed upon t e the sheet and the sheet may be divided intoorder-coupons, the first three sections being detached as threeorder-coupons and the last four sections with thesingle itemconstitutivrriiglthe fourth coupon of the order. Thus, it

readily be seen that when the coupon with three untyped sections isreceived by the ship ing department, the order includes parcels roin'four departments and that the order is not complete until the parcelswith the other three coupons have been received. --The bill webs 10 arethen drawn forward until they come into contact with the gaging finger,and the carbon-holder is thrust rearwardly to withdraw the carbon-sheetsfrom .Cil

between the portions of the bill webs which have just been written upon,and position them for writing the succeeding bill. The platen is thenlowered to grip the bill webs, and the portions which have been writtenupon are torn off by use of the knife. The platen is then raised asecond time, the bill webs are withdrawn to permit the insertion of asecond set of sectional order-sheets or coupons, and the entire cycle isrepeated.

It will be understood, of course, that several items afiecting a singledepartment may, if desired, be typed on the same sectional order-sheetor coupon.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, andortions of the im rovements ma be used w1thout others.

aving thus escribed my invention, I claim:

1. A collocation of sheets for type-mani- 4 foldin both a bill of manyitems and a set of order- 'stributors and parcel-collectors, saidcollocation including a relatively short billblank and a relatively longset of coupons,

said bill-blank printed with appropriately designated columns for theentry of items thereon, said coupons joined to one another by weakenedlines and forming a sheet, said coupons and said bill beingaPPIOPIfIZfiK identified b the same number upon thereof, an said billand said coupon-sheet a pro riately printed with similar accountientiying headings and data, the height of each coupon being of manytimes the ofthe line-spacing upon the bill, and ing usable as atic etjoruse .in making up and then accompanying the parcel to which it belongs,to serve as an identfying slip there on, said bill having s'uflicientlength to accommodate as many ordmarily typed item-lines first foursections of thereon as there are coupons in the couponsheet and saidbilland coupon sheets being disjoined to permit advance of thecouponsheet for the len th of a coupon independently of the bill aftsaid coupon-sheet having a top extension upon which its said headm isprinted, said extension serving as a ban -hold to permit the sheet to begrasped thereby to advance it independently of the bill-sheetto efiectwide spacing on the coupon-sheet of lines manifolded with ordinaryspacing upon the billsheet.

2. A sheet for use in type-manifolding both a bill of many items and aset of orderdistributors and parcel-collectors, said sheet consisting ofa lon set of coupons joined to one another by Wea ened lines, and beingappropriately identified by the same number upon each thereof toa'greewith the number on the bill, said couponesheet appropriately printedwith account-identifying headings and data to agree with theheading onthe bill, the height of each coupon being of many times the pitch of theline-spacing usually employed upon a bill, and being sufliciently ampleto enable the coupon to be usable as a ticket for use in making upandthen accompanying the parcel to which it belongs, to serve as anidentifying slip thereon, said coupon-sheet having a top extension uponwhich its said heading is printed, said extension serving as a hand-holdto permit the sheet to be grasped thereby to advance it independently ofthe bill-sheet to effect wide spacing on the coupon-sheet of linesmanifolded with ordinary spacingupon the billsheet.

JESSE A. B. SMITH.

er the typing of each line,

